Natwest T20 Blast Schedule 2016: Matches, Fixtures and Timing

Another T20 tournament coming up for the cricket fans and this time an England based cricket league called NatWest T20 Blast. Year 2014 was the inaugural season of the league and from there the craze of the tournament increasing between the fans. Total 18 first class cricket club participating in the league and they are divided into two groups North and South, having 9 teams in each. In NatWest T20 Blast 2016 season total 133 matches to be played out of which 126 matches are of the league stage and then top 4 teams from each group will qualify to the knock-out stage. The 4 team from the knock-out round will play the semi-finals and then Final. The semis and final will be played on the same day (20 August 2016). The schedule of the tournament has been announced by the ECB which will start from May 20th 2016 with Worcestershire vs Durham match and will end on August 20th with the grand finale.

The matches will be played at different cricket venues of England. The Tournament is organised by England Cricket Board. International cricketers from various countries will also participate in the league. Here is the list of team which are participating in T20 Blast 2016 along with their group :-

North Group :-

1. Worcestershire
2. Northamptonshire
3. Leicestershire
4. Derbyshire
5. Durham
6. Birmingham Bears
7. Nottinghamshire
8. Lancashire
9. Yorkshire Vikings

South Group :-

1. Middlesex
2. Glamorgan
3. Kent
4. Sussex
5. Surrey
6. Gloucestershire
7. Essex
8. Somerset
9. Hampshire

So these are the first class cricket clubs of England which are participating this year and will battle for the glory.

Each team will play 14 matches in the league stage, twice with the 6 other teams and once with the remaining 2 teams of the same group. On winning one match 2 points will be awarded, zero point to the losing team and one point to each team for a tie. The Points table will decide the top 4 teams of each group which will play the knock-out round as per the schedule.

Lancashire Cricket club is the current champions of T20 Blast tournament and is one of the favorite team of 2016 season too. They have won the title in 2015 against Northamptonshire. This year Martin Guptill, New Zealand batsman joined the Lancashire team which will strengthen their batting unit but the eyes of cricket fans will be looking for big ones from the bat of Jos Buttler.

Birmingham Bears who has recently changed their name to Warwickshire for the tournament only is a county cricket club from England won the inaugural season of the Natwest T20 in 2014 and is also one of the strong contender of 2016 season.

Battle has been started between 18 teams and every team will try to get into the top 4 in the points table so that they can qualify into the next round of the tournament which will be a knock-out round.

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Here is the complete Natwest T20 Blast 2016 schedule & fixtures with respective venues and timings of the matches are given below:-

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So we have back to back entertainment first IPL 2016 where Sunrisers Hyderabad won and now the England based T20 tournament standing on the door. Stay tune for more updates from the tournament.